Not always about the fire but most definitely about the refiner🌾

Your tree might have been burned a bit for another to be planted. Sometimes we have to cut off the unhealthy in order for the healthy parts to grow. Though your spirit has been dampened in this season you just may be strengthening another in their dry season.

There have been many soul gripping moments when I go through a trial. My actions. My feelings. My friends. My self. And ultimately my faith. Have been through the lost. Unknown. Scared. Afraid. Knowing that it was for a season. Yet not knowing how long this digging up soil will be before the joyous harvest. How many things are going to be bloomed or planted. Or yet how many things have I burned down. Joseph remained faithful.

And if I’m honest I don’t think I could have. I get mad when someone doesn’t quote me word for word, much less create lies and cost me my whole life. After all ready being forgotten by my family, sold by my own brothers. I would question. I would doubt. I wouldn’t think my highest of highs could even take away the pain of this my lowest low. Rejection at its finest. But yet he remained faithful. Then he gets to be with the king his right-hand man and everything is going good. Great actually. And yet because he was loyal and faithful. It cost him. His job. His title. We walk through life, and we go through hard ships, but we tend to either be shaped or let it ultimately shape us. Joseph’s life wasn’t cake and ice cream. It wasn’t one day wake up in the courts of the king. He went through trials to incorporate his testimony. If we all had it are way we’d probably live a life free of trials and pain and sorrows. Yet it’s those very things that draws people to the refiner. Because the fire is promised just as must as a refiner. You can’t live a life without the fire because you’ll more than likely never Experience the refiner. It’s humbling. It’s needed in faith. It’s needed more than likely not just in your life but one day in someone else’s. That’s why there are those who are already out of the fire it’s their testimony of how they walked out. The same way Joseph walked out of that cell because his calling was the very thing that got him in that pit is the same exact thing that’s going to get him back into his victory.

Joseph didn’t despise his droughts but rejoiced all the more in them. Doing the absolute most & going the extra mile in every circumstance he was in. Though it seemed others stayed the same and he fluctuated between titles and social standards. He didn’t fix his eyes on the past and how the fire refined him. He let it be the blessing in which he blessed his family in the future he didn’t let the fire refine his life but the refiner. Every season. In the highest or to the prison cell he remained steadfast and gained the trust of those around him. Because his character went beyond the claims of the enemy.